MOSCOW, April 29 (RIA Novosti) – Almost half of families evacuated from disaster-hit Fukushima Prefecture have been split up and nearly 70 percent of all evacuees feel distressed and frustrated, according to the results of a survey released by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper Tuesday.

According to the survey, only 45 percent of families continued to live together after the evacuation, while 49 percent said they had split up and currently live in two or more different locations.

Research also showed that families were forced to separate over a number of reasons such as high radiation levels and locations of new schools and work offices.